The Unregulated Gold Mining in the Amazon

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The gold mining that's happening down there is it's funny because we've been hearing a lot recently about the cobalt mines in Africa and it's like where we are in the Amazon. studying this very very little understood apex predator and one of the things you can learn is how mercury moves through the ecosystem which can damage the ecosystem in all kinds of different waysYeah it's brutal man the gold mining that’s happening down there was two Russian guys though who had a legal mining concession Somehow way out past the machine gun guarded limit of the pump us which is where they do all this gold mining.

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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:09) – Amazon rainforest
(17:24) – Discovery of the Amazon
(22:00) – Werner Herzog
(28:06) – Jane Goodall
(41:55) – Anacondas
(1:05:44) – Eaten Alive
(1:18:08) – Joe Rogan
(1:26:28) – Surviving in the Amazon
(1:53:39) – Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon
(2:03:34) – Surrounded by black caiman crocodiles
(2:21:11) – Graham Hancock and ancient civilizations
(2:26:43) – Aliens
(2:56:44) – Climate change
(3:01:55) – Jordan Peterson
(3:19:17) – Hunting
(3:26:33) – Ayahuasca
(3:35:00) – Meaning of life